Wales
Ebbw Vale ironworks valley tips
Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Clay pipe stemsAlso reported: works tokens and iron.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Why this spot
1880 historic-map era
Valley town built around ironworks founded in the 1790s that grew into a vast steelworks; terraced housing, works tips and river-edge dumping grounds date from the whole industrial era.
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